Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a ...

BrainBridge is best understood as the first public billboard for a hugely controversial scheme to defeat death. An animated video posted this week has a voice-over that sounds like a late-night TV ...

Noninvasive stimulation helped them regain upper-body function—and the device could be approved later this year. Fourteen years ago, a journalist named Melanie Reid attempted a jump on horseback ...

The tech that gets the most attention isn’t always the most useful, affordable, or practical. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter.

Finding high-quality data sets is tricky because of the way China’s internet functions. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China.

Generative AI has made phishing, scamming, and doxxing easier than ever. Artificial intelligence has brought a big boost in productivity—to the criminal underworld. Generative AI provides a ...

How worried should we be about AI’s effects on the grid? This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up ...

Advanced computing is core to the security and prosperity of the US. We need to lay the groundwork now. The global race for computational power is well underway, fueled by a worldwide boom in ...

Tailored algorithms will help filter a coming flood of astronomical observations, helping scientists make new discoveries about the universe. In deserts across Australia and South Africa ...

Plus: Google's AI search is going from bad to worse This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Large language models don’t have a theory of mind the way humans do—but they’re getting better at tasks designed to measure it in humans. Humans are complicated beings. The ways we ...

The company’s new free flagship “omnimodel” looks like a supercharged version of assistants like Siri or Alexa. OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model that you can communicate ...